Scrooge + Grinch = me

[DarrenGMiller]

The one person it sounds like that will need you on Christmas is your Grandfather. Have him over for dinner, or go to his house, and spend time with him. Regardless of all the other things and people, he's going to need someone around. I remember my Grandfathers first Xmas without my Grandmother, he was grouchy and tired and complained, but in the end it was obvious that he needed us there.

I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with this. There is never enough time to spend with your grandparents and, as you and they age, your parents. I went to my parents' house this morning and cooked sausage/cheese balls with my Dad... went out to breakfast, watched Peoples' Court, etc. Not my usual choice of activities, but sometimes you need to swallow it and take people on their own terms if you love them.

DM

 

[Rel]

sometimes you need to swallow it and take people on their own terms if you love them.

Quoted for truth!

 

[Desdichado]

sometimes you need to swallow it and take people on their own terms if you love them.

That's exactly what I told my wife when we first started dating! Weird!

 

[Teflon Billy]

Actually its about the birth of Christ, but I'm not even going to go there...

Not for us it isn't. It's about Santa (for the kids) , Family (for the Adults) and about decorating the house/tree, having friends over, festive drinks/food, merriment etc.

Birth of Christ? Not on my watch

Whatever Christmas is about, it certainly isn't about grinding your teeth and hoping nobody starts an argument or something. It doesn't sound like anyone was actually going to enjoy the get-together, so what would be the point?

There's some wisdom

 

[Umbran]

The point? Tradition! People hate change, even if what they're changing to is better than what they're changing from. Nowhere is this more evident than Holiday Traditions. I cite: The Fruitcake. How many families insist on making one of these horrid monstrosities that nobody wants to take a bite of (except perhaps as the result of a rousing Christmas Night game of Truth or Dare while drinking the rest of the rum) when there are plenty of tasty confections they could be making instead.

None. Nobody makes fruitcake. I'm fairly sure there is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people just keep "regifting" it to each other...

It is my theory that the fruitcake is really a gelatinous lich. Probably the undead master of Grooge and Scrinch...

 

[buzzard]

None. Nobody makes fruitcake. I'm fairly sure there is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people just keep "regifting" it to each other...

It is my theory that the fruitcake is really a gelatinous lich. Probably the undead master of Grooge and Scrinch...

I dunno, Diaglo claims to have eaten one of the things. Are liches edible?

buzzard

 

[Teflon Billy]

None. Nobody makes fruitcake. I'm fairly sure there is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people just keep "regifting" it to each other...

It is my theory that the fruitcake is really a gelatinous lich. Probably the undead master of Grooge and Scrinch...

Bleh! Fruitcake. :\

 

[Lorgrom]

Family - Scrooge + Grinch = me

No where in your situation do you even remotly act like the Scrooge (cheep bas%@rd who hates everyone and only cares about making money), or the Grinch (angry man who has been burned by eveyone he cared about).

 

[Rel]

None. Nobody makes fruitcake. I'm fairly sure there is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people just keep "regifting" it to each other...

It is my theory that the fruitcake is really a gelatinous lich. Probably the undead master of Grooge and Scrinch...

Sorry to break it to you but I have seen it with my very own eyes! My grandfather used to make one every year with a little help from my father. I never ate the nasty things (and as I recall nobody else ate much of it either) but at least my grandfather made up for it by also making some excellent fudge. I think it was mostly an excuse for the two of them to stand around the kitchen drinking rum.

Now that my grandfather is gone, my dad and I dropped the pretense of the fruitcake and just stand around the kitchen drinking. But we switched to top shelf gin.

 

[Umbran]

I dunno, Diaglo claims to have eaten one of the things. Are liches edible?

Depends upon your definition of "edible". But you can generally ask the same question about fruitcake, so that's another way they're similar...

Sorry to break it to you but I have seen it with my very own eyes! My grandfather used to make one every year with a little help from my father.

Dude, even the most weak of stage magicians can put a pan of goop into the oven, and take something else out an hour later. I'm sure your granddad would was up to the task of fooling a coupld of rum-laced helpers

If it wasn't just trickery, what you saw may have been the process by which the fruitcake lich (lichcake?), reforms a body after being slain. Recall that so long as the lich's phylactery is intact, it'll keep coming back.